relationships

March 17, 2016 0

Given these many ways of doing relationships, I want us to look at all paths: single life, community life, or partnership with another [...]

March 15, 2016 1

One path doesn’t work for everyone, as I wrote before. So people are starting to discuss just what an honest commitment means. The [...]

March 15, 2016 0

So that path to becoming a monk or nun looks very different from America’s “relationship escalator.” You know, the one that [...]

One year at university, I gave up the internet for Lent. It wasn’t an especially holy move. I was just curious what would happen if [...]

April 29, 2015 2

Four years ago (!) I wrote an ethnographic research paper on missionary ethics that was, I like to think, well-written, complex, and [...]

In a sudden phone call last night, I was asked to speak Kazakh today in some sort of konkurs (competition). Turns out, I’ve just [...]

April 5, 2012 4

I realized that I vastly prefer blogs that are mostly pictures and only a few words, over blogs that have deep thoughts. So I’m [...]

The other day, Aiza, an older friend, told me that her son just arrived from Almaty. Oh, how’s your son? I ask. Well, he wants to [...]

June 26, 2011 4

I’ve been on a reading spree recently… and so as someone in my mid-twenties, I recently read Dannah Gresh’s What are you [...]

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